ufo turns out to be the moon

[phobos (John)]

A recording of the call has been released as part of a police campaign asking people to use 999 appropriately.

The Control Room conversation, which took place in May, was recorded - and below is a transcript:

Control Room: "South Wales Police, what's your emergency?"

Caller: "It's not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there's a bright stationary object."

Control room: "Right."

Caller: "If you've got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It's been there at least half an hour and it's still there."

Control: "It's been there for half an hour. Right. Is it actually on the mountain or in the sky?"

Caller: "It's in the air."

Control: "I will send someone up there now to check it out."

Caller: "OK."

The mystery was soon solved, as the exchange between control and an officer at the scene, makes clear.

Control: "Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?"

Officer: "Yes, it's the moon. Over."

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7489457.stm

Imagine their excitement upon seeing the sun a few hours later

[renormalised (Carl)]

How anyone could mistake the Moon or anything else, for an UFO, I don't know??!!!!.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

LOLOL
People can be so stupid at times.
I know of adults who didn't know that you can see the Moon in the daytime.
Bless 'em.
They make me feel smart.

[renormalised (Carl)]

I know of adults who didn't know that you can see the Moon in the daytime.

And yet, they've probably been looking at the damn thing all their lives.

Although, it's probably not as bad as a survey taken in the US a few years ago.... 75 million people didn't even know that the Earth orbits the Sun!!!!!!.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

IDIOTS What more can i say !!!!!

[iceman (Mike)]

heh that's pretty funny.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

On a slightly different note, a few months ago there was a report of a new minor planet a few metres across heading towards earth. I forget the details, but it was given an official minor planet number, until someone realised it was a spacecraft on a slingshot trajectory.
Geoff

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

75 million people didn't even know that the Earth orbits the Sun!!!!!!.

[vash (Ashley)]

I've heard of similar stories. My uncle works on a large ship, one morning after the night shift he's just plodding on and mentioning things he could see and said that there was an odd light on the horizon, turns out it was the moon rising, can't blame him, doing his job.

[Ric]

They might have been smoking a bit of wacky weed up on that mountain.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Ric

They might have been smoking a bit of wacky weed up on that mountain.

What? And then phoned the cops?? Sounds too wacky to me .

[ving (David)]

groan!
some people amaze me

[Ric]

I read an article in a local Far South Coast paper where a person had called the boys in blue to complain his crop had been pinched.

The coppers, naturally interested went to the property to investigate where the gentleman concerned then told then the thieves had only stolen one patch of plants but had not found the second bigger crop.

Guess what, the police did.

He must have smoked to much of the profits.

[TrevorW]

It's mean of us to call them idiots when really it's the government and thier education systems fault for treating them like so much cattle.

I remember growing up and learning more about American history and geography than most Americans know in a lifetime about their own country,

Yes it's like someone once said "ignorance is bliss" do you think if they actually had to think would they have ended up electing George Bush.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Jeees, how stupid can you get?

Had a good laugh though.

[GrahamL]

well my close encounter in the night turned out to be the bee man tending his hives .. bright lights, fog everwhere ,and an a lifeform with a space suit on and strange looking gun in its hand. ..but I could of been wrong ....maybe it wasn't the moon ..you just never know

[Jen]

[Kal (Andrew)]

The UK recently declassified hundreds of UFO reports, and you can download them and view them from here. I read one of the pdf files worth of reports, and it is amazing how many people confuse stars or planets, especially venus, for ufo's.

[MrB (Simon)]

Yep, makes reporting distress flares pretty difficult too.
I used to live on the beachfront and occasionally saw flares so would ring the local sea rescue. Pretty much every time I got a 5min run-around on whether it was just Venus we were looking at or some other bright star or even a meteor.
I would have to politely explain to them that I know how Venus appears in the sky and what stars look like and then would describe to them the flare I saw.

I can understand why they go to great lengths to discount possible Venus sightings!

[Ric]

Hi Kal, I was looking at the downloads for those files. There is a few hefty downloads in that lot.

Cheers